續傳燈錄 2.43

2.43

潤州金山瑞新禪師。僧問。吾有大患為吾有身。父母未生未審此身在甚麼處。師曰。曠大劫來無處所。若論生滅盡成非。曰恁麼則周遍十方心不在一切處。師曰。泥裏撼椿。上堂。世間所貴者和氏之璧隋侯之珠。金山喚作驢屎馬糞。出世間所貴者真如解脫菩提涅槃。金山喚作𡱰沸碗鳴。且道恁麼說話落在甚麼處。故不是取舍心重信邪倒見。諸人要知麼。猛虎不顧几上肉。洪爐豈鑄囊中錐。

Chan Master Ruixin of Jinshan in Runzhou. A monk asked, "'I have great affliction because I have a body.' Before my father and mother had given birth [to me], where was this body?" The Master said, "For vast eons there has been no place; / If one discusses arising and ceasing, all becomes error." The monk said, "In that case, it pervades the ten directions, and the mind is not in any place." The Master said, "Shaking a post in the mud." He ascended the hall: "What is valued in the mundane world is the jade of He and the pearl of Marquis Sui; Jinshan calls them donkey dung and horse manure. What is valued beyond the mundane world is tathatā, liberation, bodhi, and nirvāṇa; Jinshan calls them boiling flatulence and clattering bowls. Now tell me, where do such words land? It certainly is not that the mind of grasping and rejecting is heavy or that one believes in inverted views. Do you all want to understand? A fierce tiger does not look back at meat upon a table; how could a great furnace forge an awl inside a bag?"